Nutanix, the start-up that came out of stealth mode last year claiming to be the first company to offer software-defined storage wrapped in off-the-shelf x86 servers, has raised $33 million in Series C funding.
\nIt got the reportedly \u201cmassively oversubscribed\u201d round from current investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures as well as new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs.
\nIt brings total financing to $71.2 million.
\nThe company is going to use the money to expand sales, marketing and support, and double up on R&D.
\nThe start-up doesn\u2019t waste its time on modesty. It claims to be the fastest-growing infrastructure start-up in the last decade with record growth and revenue in the fiscal year ending in July. It says it\u2019s shipped 150 systems, including 600 servers attached to more than 3.3PB of spindle and Fusion-io storage. It claims the fastest R&D to 50-node clusters, fastest to 100 paid units, fastest to 50 reseller partners and fastest to distribution in Europe and Japan, all in the two years since it got its A round. <\/p>\n